Neugebauer: Border control issues confirm worst fears

Three congressmen from Texas are seeking the help of President Barack Obama to solve one of their state’s biggest issues -- border control.

Rep. Randy Neugebauer (R-Lubbock) joined Reps. Mac Thornberry (R-Amarillo) and Mike Conaway (R-Midland) teamed up to express their disappointment in the Obama “administration’s failed immigration and border security policies,” and implore the president to work with congress on the issue.

"Instead of working with Congress to build up the manpower, technology, and capabilities needed to protect our borders, this administration has consistently insisted the border was already secure," the congressmen write in a letter to Obama.

The number of undocumented children entering the U.S. through Texas has more than doubled since 2012, according to estimates the congressmen attributed to Health and Human Services.

With the number of illegal immigrants growing each year, Neugebauer, Thornberry and Conaway fear that as many as 90,000 children will have illegally crossed the border by the end of the year.

“This crisis has also confirmed our worst fears about the security of U.S. borders. If thousands of children can cross our borders illegally, it is clear that almost anyone or anything can enter the United States without consent or knowledge – drugs, criminals, disease or even worse,” the letter read.

To address the issue, Neugebauer and the other congressmen are asking that the Obama administration take immediate action by developing a comprehensive plan to “quickly increase security” on the border.

“Please also provide information on what steps are being taken to discourage undocumented minors from attempting the dangerous journey to the U.S.-Mexico border, and what your administration plans as a long term solution for the children already in the U.S.,” the letter read.

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I would like to see it passed in the House, but the GOP won't allow it. In terms of border security, we have more border security now than we've ever had. Obama has deported more undocumented people in his first 4 years than Bush did in his eight. Blaming a humanitarian crisis created by drug violence and poverty in other countries on Obama's policies is lame.

The current administration's refusal to deport illegal immigrants via legislation that delays deportation for 14-31 yr olds and women with small children has led to this massive third world assault on our southern border. So they put out the pamphlets all over Latin America that advertises our open border policy. Meanwhile they don't show the pics of mostly males 14 and older that are in these shelters getting free food, medical care, free lawyers and a promise of housing and vocational/educational training. And they are all on their smart phones and on Twitter sending the message back home about how good they've got it over here and the influx at the border grows ten fold every day. And Texans are paying $1.3,000,000 a week to secure the border.Can someone tell me how a peasant from Guatemala can pay a coyote $5 thousand, 7 thousand or 9 thousand dollars to get them to the border? Or even more incredulous, how can an unaccompanied child trek thru Mexico with the cartels that make Mexico more dangerous than Iraq?They are being bused here by the Mex. govt and the U.S. govt, all for an evil political purpose. Obama knows that Americans are easily manipulated by children in crisis, even if it is a carefully manipulated crisis. Our border agents are working with one hand tied behind their backs and becoming baby sitters to appease those who advocate for cheap labor by creating a new underclass of uneducated, unskilled drains on our social services, our educational system and our health care system. Our people are already overburdened with taxes and we are barely staying afloat and now we have to foot the bill to keep these lawbreakers in the country for an indefinite number of years. Most don't appear in court and just blend in with the other 14 to 39 million illegals already here. This is insanity. No deportation means no border which means pretty soon no country. Austin will become the New Mexico City and who will benefit? Those who are pushing for AMNESTY, DEMS AND REPUBLICANS who are sell outs for cheap labor. The dissolution of our border will accelerate the crime rate in the border states and we all become 3rd class citizens. That is the plan. Just because Texas is a red state not a blue one. He ain't sending them to his home state or DC is he?